Archive for February, 2009

I'll soon be polluting the airwaves with semi-abandon--Wisconsin Public Radio this morning, and Studio 360 this weekend--so I thought I'd re-post some reviews of "How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This ...

-Removing the candles from his birthday cake with hypoallergenic tongs
-Hoping that the selection process re the Obama family pet has been "responsible"
-Arguing for cumin's inclusion as the third-party condiment
-Elder-blogging
-Wondering, "2012?"

I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance about how best to celebrate one's 100th birthday. A big question. My research has led me to a story that ran in London's Daily Mail two summers ago; the article opened, "An ...

I only just now found this lovely column by Oliver Burkeman about my book, "How to Live" yesterday, though it ran in the Guardian last weekend: my Google Alert has not been so, uh, alert of late.
I'd like to tell ...

81 year-old Italian actor and comedian Oreste Lionello passed away today in a Rome hospital after a long illness. Lionello achieved his greatest fame as a dubber of voices in American movies shown in Italy.
A career as a dubber is ...

I'm usually not a fan of traditional jokes. No sooner have I been told about a priest walking into a bar or about an insect immured in a bowl of borscht than I feel slightly irritable and trapped, as if ...

En route to our mutual speaking engagment at the Los Angeles Public Library to discuss the peculiar charms of the elderly, Sandra Tsing Loh ran into some trouble. Namely, her eccentric, 88 year-old father, as you can read/hear here or ...